Social issue Film

who are these crazy artists?

Contact: contato@bemteviproducoes.com.br = e-mail

Lara Jacoski and Patrick Belem are Brazilian Filmmakers who aim to connect real life with art . They are visiting RIS for over a Month and will be teaching YOU their ART. This has come to happen becaues one of our RIS Art Teacher met them at a short films exhibition made in Brazil/India/Bolivia/Morocco in Bangkok. The films have an experimental and social character and Lara and Patrick love to chat with all students discussing art as reflective and social tool.

You can visit Lara's Website http://www.larajacoski.com/ to find out much more about her and see examples of her work and collaborations

Lesson one

1. Introduction - why they do what they do.Traveling is a way to see things differently!They showed a variety of films they made under different film styles:Which film style do you like?1. Corporate/Commercial2. Making of3. Video Art4. Teaser (conceptual/promotional)​5. Performance6. Documentary (free/profile/narrative)

​Homework - Choose one film​ from this category and write 3 lines on why you like it (Please write them in your sketchbook or glue them in when you come to class)A great first lesson - very excited about what's coming

lesson 2

1. Subject = (Example: Sea)2. Justify Why= (Example: Animals are dying and life in the sea is bad. What will we eat? So people need to take care)- what am I trying to say?- What is the reason?- What is the message?3. Approach = (Example: Documentary, interview and video art together)- How can I say it? - What is the best way to say it?- People and Characters4. Story Line= (Example: A film trying to create awareness of the problem in the sea)5. Synopsis

TASKS1. TALK ABOUT IN CLASS - PLASTIC2. BRAINSTORM IDEAS 3. PICK ONE IDEA FROM THe BRAINSTORM4 HOMEWORK - One person from each group do one of the following for your movie:- Justify why - ﻿- Approach -- Story Line and Synopsis - Email to (with name class and teacher): contato@bemteviproductoes.com.br

lesson 3

FILM ROLES1st DIRECTOR's ASSISTANT: Direct the film on set, help to improve the film.2nd DIRECTOR's ASSISTANT: Directs the background of the film. Check everyones work and help them.DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION: Make the film happen. Check what people need to make their jobs.SCRIPT: Write the script and help to prepare the set. Works as continuity on set, checks if everyone at the same page about the idea/script.CAMERA: 1st camera on set (films a wider plan) + 2nd camera on set (films closer shots)ART DEPARTMENT: Take care of the looking of the film. Work as Location Manager searching for places to film and on set works checkin on the look of the background and the character.SOUND: Work on set recording interviews as well ambient sound.MUSIC RESEARCHER: Research for the best music for the film, manage the legal rights of the music.GRAPHIC DESIGN: Create the introduction and credits, besides advertising material.EDITOR: Team that works first as 'logger' (capturing all files and organizing it), than 'decoupage' (which is kind of a translation of every scenes) and editing it (mixing sound, music and image according to the script's idea)MAKING OF:Film everything that happens in the making of the film. It has it's own style and needs to be edited.PROMOTION: Make people get to know about our film by sending releases to blogs and websites, as well submitting the film to several festivals. (Generally a position from the Executive Producer and also PR.

Film Ideas1. Plastic Sculptures +process + info2. "No plastic day" at school3. Create Recycled Board Games4. Interview= How people lived without plastic5. What you have to say about plastic - interview6. Solution on plastic use in school7. Everyday life (fiction + doc) usage of plastic8. Plastic Action at school + reaction9. Questions of plastic to school + give info10. Routine of a plastic bottle in school11. Steps of plastic at school (glass plates etc) 12. Teach elementary school13. Science behind plastic14. Truth of plastic15. RIS Daily Life- Store plastic - Students VS Teacher usage16. Cartoon - how plastic is made

Ideas For 15- Testimonials- Buying, drinking, throwing in trash- Plastic bottle is a character More inspiration - Day-in- the life of a Plastic Bag FUTURESTATES by Werner Herzog

START:from the end: colorful rotten bottle “I remember” to the beginning - different end something different happen “you can make a difference” / WHAT IF different end = different materialMIDDLE:

END:KEY SCENES:

CAMERAANGLES + MOVEMENTS: combine to create a sequence of a meaningSHOTS: decision on framing or length + angle + movement*Every shot is different because it means something different*DESCRIPTION OF SHOTS:

EXTREME WIDE / EXWD : Extreme wide (landscape - establishing shot)

WIDE / WD: Wide shot (needs to look real life)

AMERICAN: Head to thighs

MEDIUM: Medium shot - waist to head

CLOSE / CU: Close up - face shot

EXTREME CLOSE UP / EXCU: Extreme close up of the face.

POV: Point of view - be the eyes of the character

MOVEMENT:Pan - left to right or right to left in a tripod (like spinning 180 degrees)Tilt - up to down, down to upSlider - when you travel with the camera from right to left or left to right in a tripod with a slider <-------->Traveling - when you follow the characterTracking shot - by using a dolly tracking the character Zoom - from far to close

﻿AUDIO﻿Coverage of sound around school with: - 1 minute recordings of around 5 sounds. - Make a catalogue of the different sounds (filing with a number and a description)

PRODUCER

Checking what everyone is doing and take notes.

Help people!

Check homework

help ORDER OF THE DAY

Write down what the group could bring for next lesson

﻿﻿CAMERA TIPS﻿﻿

Camera Basics:

ISO - ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the sensitivity of your camera.

Keep it simple, as simple you do it, the easier will be and less chance to make it wrong.

When you film something, the subject and the movements always seems faster in the camera than real life. Get at least 5 seconds for each shot!

Try to shake the less possible! Is always better if you can use a tripod or a shoulder pad to not shake it!

Try to film the same scene 3 times! So we have more options on shot if anything goes wrong.

Take care not to film against the light! Before filming you should see the light and think about the video, is the light soft ? What about the shadows ?

Try to explore different shot sizes!

Change positions! If you filmed the interviewee in one position, why not to try another one for the next question ?

Eyeline match, unless you want to show that your interviewee is bigger or smaller, film them at your eye level.

TO CHECK BEFORE FILMING:

CHECK FRAMING - Make sure you are not cutting anything important from the scene, also make sure there’s nothing distracting or confusing on the scene.

CHECK LIGHT - Check the shot at the screen. Is it too bright ? Too Dark ? Can you change the exposure to make it look better ?

CHECK FOCUS - Is your subject on focus ? Is the shot sharp ? Is the interviewee moving ? How can he stay in focus

COVERAGE IMAGES: Coverage images are the shots we make to cover the interview, the extra shots that are related to the subject! They are really important, get a couple of long shots of the subject, think about what the interviewee is talking about and remember to film it later! Also some coverage images of the interviewee are very useful, some close shots of his hands, his eyes, it’s up to you!

Rule of thirds: align our subject with one of the points where those lines cross. That means our subject is one third of the way “into” the picture space – from either the top or bottom, and from either the left or right. And that means it’s not in the middle. It’s more pleasing to the eye.

AUDIO : Remember, the sound recorder is a lot more sensible than your ears! So take care!

Choose a quiet location! Sit and listen for a while, are there any roads ? Is the location too busy ? Are there airports close

Record some natural sound! Can be really useful for the edition.

The headphones are your monitor, make sure the sound is good and make sure is being recorded

Check if the mic is positioned in right place! Remember, the sound get out from the interviewee’s mouth, so find the best place to place it!

Ask the interviewee to talk in his/her higher and lower pitch so you set up it right. Take care with the “p’s”! When the interviewee say the any word with P, they are the most problematics!

Starts with a zoomed and focused view on RIS plastic water bottle that’s in a pile of trash located in the middle school garbage pile that is next to the stairs. The water bottle will have a brighter effect [done by only putting focus on the bottle and allowing splash unto the bottle only, meaning the bottle’s surroundings are out of focus and greyish black than the other pieces of garbage to show it sticking out). Bottle starts to speak saying:

Begins with a more colorful screen (editor should boost the saturation of the scenes to define color), this symbolizes the happiness of the time. Student buys the bottle (camera focuses on the bottle being handed and bottle being received by the student and student walking away with it and using it.) Student drinking water from the bottle. Student taking the bottle and putting inside of the bag, student leave the shot, the camera remain at the canteen with other students and other water bottles. The Bottle speaks and says during the scenes:

NARRATION

I was happy when I got picked. Most of us aren’t even noticed. I remember being alone. But they said it’d be different when we’re chosen. They said we’d be special. And I was.

4 - Tennis Courts SCENE 04 – TENNIS COURT IN GODBOUTHALL- EXT/DAY

*scene is shot in the tennis court in godabouthall*. Water bottle is the forward focus of the camera in this scene, focusing on the background at first of the student playing tennis then focus changes to the water bottle.

5 - HallwaySCENE 05 – HIGHSCHOOL BREEZWAY - EXT/DAY

Another scene of the bottle being used is being put on the side of a bag as the student walks. (Camera is steady on the water bottle, zoomed into the bag and water bottle being carried only. This should fill up the screen.)

6 - GymSCENE 06 – GYM IN GODBOUT HALL - INT/DAY

The student was practicing in the gym with the bottle sitting there (music still happy) than suddenly her friends pressure her to hurry up and student:FRIEND 01 Hurry up, we’re gonna be late”

FRIEND 02Yeah, c’mon.

During this the camera films the girl packing up her gym bag and she is such a rush when she gets her bag she tips her bottle over. She searches for it but friends rush her so she leaves and forgets the bottle behind. (should we have this scene where she tips her bottle over and searches for it or just make her forget entirely about the bottle?)

Camera is again in the ‘perspective’ of the bottle, right next to it (make it a long shot), NARRATOR

I waited for her to return.

Clock that shows the hours passing by. (Should we have the clock? Or just continue the previous shot to actually show a long time of waiting?)NARRATOR

But after a while I started to understand she wouldn’t return.

(pause)I started to feel alone again

The bottle is then picked up by a cleaning lady and thrown into the trash. Scene turns black. (Should we keep the scene going where the janitor actually put the bottle in the bin, and take the bin with her, then we follow the janitor and the perspective of the bottle –as written in the next scene- falling down in the pile of plastic trash and than fade out as he were unconscious? So we can actually start next scene exactly how we started the film? As the bottle was sitting there remembering his story and we come back to the same)

(What if we have the same scene than before so is a sort of an introduction of the new happy end we want to show? Maybe we can start on the same scene on the gym that the girl forgot her bottle, but this time she remember to pick up and then actually go to fill the bottle.)

The scene opens up again with a student filing a reusable water bottle and as it slowly starts to zoom out, his background is moving (shot in the entrance of the godabouthall where you can fill up your water bottle. More casts are needed to move around the person doing their own business. Time-lapsed forward to show that as time passes the bottle stays the same. (Not sure timelapse it’s possible/necessary, maybe we just end the film with the person actually mixing with other people at the Godbout hall – think of the end!)

Lettering – screen 1: TO MAKE A CHANGE, WE MUST FIRST CHANGE

Lettering – screen 2: OUR WATER BOTTLES.

Then maybe advertisement of a brand that has good reusable water bottles. (Not possible to do it as you would need them to allow you to use their logo, generally they would pay for this film, but if you want to sell your video you can send a propostal!)

Lettering – screen 3:START SMALL, DO BIG.

THE END.

lesson 8

Cameras + 1st direction = FIILM SCENES =)

Second Director = Finish shot list + check music + check credits

Credits = Record the credits

Making of =1 of set, 2 of editing, 1 of filming credits, 1 at the classroom

Music =check music with direction

Promotion = Create blog and create a group email

Ayush and Tri= Practice and record narration

Script = Write press Release

lesson 9

MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKEBy now you know what you are up to. This is the 2nd to last lesson and it needs to be finished next class